© Fitzwilliam Museum
1380-1400 - extra long handle so it can be held with one or both hands. Found in the bed of the River Ouse. Armourers mark Lombardic B.
W B Redfern; Sir Gerald Ryan
Renoir's La Place Clichy presents a charming and apparently spontaneous impression of Parisian life. It is easy to see from this picture why one commentator described the artist as 'the true painter of young women, the bloom of whose skin, velvet flesh, darting eye, and elegant finery, he renders with sunlit gaiety.'
The 14th-century Macclesfield Psalter contains delightfully surreal marginal illustrations, including a dog dressed as a bishop, a rabbit riding a hound, and a series of grotesque figures with faces in their bottoms and legs emerging from their shoulders.
